Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Enzo Traverso

Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory

Enzo Traverso

312 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next cha...

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